How to stop automatic highlighting

xnman

Sometimes I do things that seem to highlight a verse or passage and I don't even know how I did it.

But then I have to "unhighlight" that passage or verse.  I don't use hightlighting at all.

Is there a way to turn off all highlighting so that it never is highlighted automatically?

MJ. Smith

Never heard of nor seen this behavior before. How do you unhighlight it? delete the highlight in the Notes tool or the Delete Notes and HIghlights in the Context Menu? other "highlighting" that are more likely:

• if it is highlighted because it has been selected and you simply click outside the highlight to change the focus - be careful when moving via mouse or track pad
• if it is highlighted to show search results; clearing or closing the search results will remove the highlights
• if it is highlighted because a visual filter is turned on, open the visual filter menu and unselect all filters will remove them. Remember that many filters are controlled through this menu besides the user created visual filter documents.
• Factbook can provide a light blue dashed line as a highlight; turn off via the Factbook icon on the resource panel tool bar
• spell check highlights errors - correct the error to clear

That's all the potential sources I can think of. As to which applies in your case, I haven't a clue. How you clear them would tell me what type of highlight they are.

JT (alabama24)

When you "accidentally" create a highlight, was it on desktop or mobile? Do you have "swipe to highlight" enabled? (I don't know of any other way to "accidentally" create a highlight). 

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1248775#Comment_1248775

Again, thanks to all for your suggestions and such...

I finally got the highlight cleared....  Here's what I'm a thinking happened...

I did a search ... which I think did highlight a verse... but when I killed the search... the highlight stayed.... I don't know what I did to accomplish that... but it happened.  I call that "accidental highlighting".... 

I tried all kinds of things.... but couldn't clear the highlight... So I went in Notes and deleted every highlight I had.... I never purposefully instigated any one of those highlights and everyone of them was done by some "accidental way" which I still have not figured out, but probably through the search somehow.

I don't use highlights.... never have on purpose... but I had many "accidental highlights" in my Notes...  I will try to be more careful when I do a Search.... I don't like highlights showing up when I didn't purposefully do it.... not even in Search!

Edit: And all this was done on my desktop Windows 11.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1248855#Comment_1248855

I don't use highlights.... never have on purpose... but I had many "accidental highlights" in my Notes...  I will try to be more careful when I do a Search.... I don't like highlights showing up when I didn't purposefully do it.... not even in Search!

Edit: And all this was done on my desktop Windows 11.

Turn off "Show Selection Menu" in Program Settings  - one click and you have an accidental highlight!!

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1248855#Comment_1248855

I did a search ... which I think did highlight a verse...

I can understand your confusion, but it is important to get the nomenclature correct. The search function does not "create a highlight" although in casual language we might describe it as "highlighting" the search results. The graphical feature of the search results being "highlighted" disappears once the search window is closed. If there is a persistent highlight than either another search window is open OR something else is going on. 

I don't use highlights.... never have on purpose... but I had many "accidental highlights" in my Notes...

Again, the "accidental highlights" did not come from search, but if you DID have highlights in your notes file, then you must have accidentally created them some how. This is very easy to do on mobile if you have "swipe to highlight" turned on. It is less easy, but still something to take note of, to do so with the selection menu on desktop (as Dave mentioned). Here is what that looks like: 

If you have this turned on, then when you create a selection on desktop, this menu appears. Clicking on any of the highlighters will... drumroll... create a highlight.

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1248863#Comment_1248863

I did a search ... which I think did highlight a verse...

I can understand your confusion, but it is important to get the nomenclature correct. The search function does not "create a highlight" although in casual language we might describe it as "highlighting" the search results. The graphical feature of the search results being "highlighted" disappears once the search window is closed. If there is a persistent highlight than either another search window is open OR something else is going on. 

I don't use highlights.... never have on purpose... but I had many "accidental highlights" in my Notes...

Again, the "accidental highlights" did not come from search, but if you DID have highlights in your notes file, then you must have accidentally created them some how. This is very easy to do on mobile if you have "swipe to highlight" turned on. It is less easy, but still something to take note of, to do so with the selection menu on desktop (as Dave mentioned). 

If you have this turned on, then when you create a selection on desktop, this menu appears. Clicking on any of the highlighters will... drumroll... create a highlight.

Thanks JT. I did not have "swipe to highlight" turned on. But some of my highlghts could have happened before I turned it off... I seem to remember that in L9 it was turned on by default... and I turned it off.

I don't know what happened with the latest round... a verse on my desktop became highlighted and I had a note to show that...   I probably fat-fingered it somehow...

I appreciate your input!